Now that the mobile-friendly algorithm has rolled out, I have received a lot of questions from business owners about how to best check their mobile performance over time. For example, how to identify mobile rankings fluctuations, how to view trending for mobile search traffic, which tools can help track those changes, etc. I’ve decided to focus on smartphone rankings in this post.

Below, I have provided five ways you can identify and track changes to your mobile rankings over time. And to clarify, I am referring to smartphone rankings, and not tablet. Tablet rankings are not being impacted by the mobile friendly algorithm, which I know has confused some people. By using the steps below, you should be able to gauge the impact of the mobile-friendly algorithm on your website(s). Let’s jump in.

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Kathleen Garvin is an online editor and analytics wrangler for The Penny Hoarder, the largest personal finance blog. She's also a contributing writer for I Want Her Job and started a beginner-friendly digital marketing blog, The Maroon House. Kathleen is the former blog editor at SEMrush.

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Blocknessmonster

May 4, 2015

I really liked your inclusion of the article on Mobile ranking, but it totally leaves out Mobile Search apps and most users are searching in apps and not the web. No one used yelp.com, foursquare.com or maps.google.com on their phones. They are using apps.

I will! My company developed a product called MobileHorizons. Its keyword ranking software that scrapes those mobile search apps I mentioned above and gets you search rankings and screenshots of the apps results pages.

Wow - sounds very interesting! If you'd be interested in writing about keyword ranking for the SEMrush blog, I'd love to chat more. You can send an email to [email protected] and put my name in the subject line.